[mb-users] Software reccomendations for this workflow?

[Adam Golding]

On 06/01/07, Aaron Cooper <cooperaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/6/07, Adam Golding <adamgolding at adamgolding.com> wrote:
> > Hi, i've never really used musicbrainz or local music database
> > software, because i never got past the state of deciding what software
> > programs i would use for different stages of the process.  I do,
> > however, have a clear idea of the workflow i need.  Hopefully there
> > are a few programs that will do multiple steps of the workflow i
> > describe below, but i'll use a different program for every step if
> > necessary.  Please give me reccomendations for the best program to use
> > for each step.
> >
> >
> > 1.  Input metadata
> >
> >    - here i'd use the musicbrainz website--iiuc this is the only way
> >
> >
> > 2. Map metadata from musicbrainz to id3 tags on the files
> >
> >    - i need support for all the weird fields (i.e. everything helium supports:
> >
> >     http://www.helium-music-manager.com/tag_compatibility.php?from=helium_help
> >
> >    - i need to be able to map metadata to any field i choose
> >
> > 3. generate directory structure and filenames
> >
> >    - i can do this from the tags or from the metadata, doesn't matter
> >
> > 4. grab album art from online sources
> >
> >    - i know helium does this somewhat well, but it doesn't seem to be
> > the app of choice for any of my other steps
> >
> > 5. browse/sort/search/listen to my music
> >
> >    - this is the hard one, i need:
> >
> >       - very fast
> >       - support for all the weird fields, must be able to sort by them etc.
> >       - display of album art
> >       - ideally would allow some distinction between pieces and
> > various recordings of the the same pieces, but this probably insn't
> > possible
> >
> >
> >
> > ideally the program in 5 and in 2 would be the same so that i can
> > easily update tags when changes are made in mb....
> >
> > suggestions?
>
>
> Sounds like PicardQt (http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/PicardQt) might be
> to your liking.  It's not officially released yet, but you may be able
> to compile it from source.

i'm not actually all that familair with the original picard--what is
it on my workflow that picard qt can do but normal picard cannot?


>
> Regards,
> --
> -Aaron
>
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